[MCOH-EH] Alcohol Testing

[Long, Gwen]

We have a contract with a third party to do our drug testing.  They do breath alcohol following DOT regulations.  We do not do enough tests to do it “in house”.

Gwen Long, PA-C
Employee Health & Safety Specialist
Group Health Cooperative-SCW

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1. Alcohol Testing (Palfrey, John)
2. Re: Alcohol Testing (Mora, Jennifer)


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Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:19:41 +0000
From: "Palfrey, John" <jpalfrey at CapeCodHealth.org<mailto:jpalfrey at CapeCodHealth.org>>
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Alcohol Testing
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List,
For reasonable suspicion (non-DOT) testing, our practice has been to do breath alcohol testing using a calibrated and accuracy checked, evidential device operated by BAT certified staff. Our process mirrors DOT breath alcohol testing. Recently, the question of why we don't do blood alcohol testing has been asked. I would be interested to hear what others are doing:

* Breath alcohol testing?

* Blood alcohol testing?

* Both?
Thank you

John Palfrey, PA-C
Director of OHS
HCI Occ Health
774-552-6108
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Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 17:46:50 +0000
From: "Mora, Jennifer" <JMora at stohosp.com<mailto:JMora at stohosp.com>>
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We do breath alcohol testing using a DOT approved device for both DOT and Non-DOT employees. We do blood alcohol testing only if our machine is out of service.

Jen

Jennifer Mora MSN, RN
Business Health and Wellness Coordinator
Stoughton Hospital
900 Ridge Street
Stoughton, WI 53589

Office 608-873-2204
Cell 608-235-4239



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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Alcohol Testing

List,
For reasonable suspicion (non-DOT) testing, our practice has been to do breath alcohol testing using a calibrated and accuracy checked, evidential device operated by BAT certified staff. Our process mirrors DOT breath alcohol testing. Recently, the question of why we don't do blood alcohol testing has been asked. I would be interested to hear what others are doing:

* Breath alcohol testing?

* Blood alcohol testing?

* Both?
Thank you

John Palfrey, PA-C
Director of OHS
HCI Occ Health
774-552-6108
www.capecodhealth.org<http://www.capecodhealth.org><http://www.CapeCodHealth.org>

[Cape Cod Healthcare]
Expert physicians. Quality hospitals. Superior care.
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